SOFTLY AT NIGHT
THE STARS ARE SHINING
ON A COLD AND SILENT GRAVE

BOMBARDIER JOSEPH HARRISON

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

7TH DECEMBER 1917 AGE 40

BURIED: ST SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE


In the 1911 census, Joseph Harrison, a married man with three young children, was a dock labourer in New Holland, Lincolnshire, a port on the Humber estuary. In 1901 he had been a gunner with the Royal Marine Artillery based at the shore station, HMS Tamar, in Hong Kong.
His wife, Florrie, chose his inscription.